Adjective, : petty grievances. ,petty considerations. ,petty minds. ,a petty person. ,a petty revenge. ,petty states; a petty tyrant. From Dictionary.com.
China reacted the way a nation reacts: somewhat pettily. From Wordnik.com. [Scott Malcomson: Nationalism Is Back! Adieu, Davos Man?] Reference
Are we “pettily reactionary and positively fatal to life”?. From Wordnik.com. [Verdict: guilty!] Reference
They were not wantonly cruel, nor extortionate, nor even pettily thievish. From Wordnik.com. [Inconstant Star]
Perhaps, I should consider whether I might have been behaving pettily of late?. From Wordnik.com. [sa-land Diary Entry] Reference
Class war on many levels, some of it institutional, some of it pettily personal. From Wordnik.com. [I Stand With Amanda] Reference
It's really one that shouldn't be pettily dismissed, whether it completely works or not. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily: Interview. Darren Aronofsky.] Reference
What is it that wouldn't matter if it were to be made whole again, in short, to be pettily identical to what's different?. From Wordnik.com. [Enrique Lihn] Reference
It's always a long-winded, grandstanding, pettily partisan affair (show me a Council budget debate which isn't); this year's was no exception. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
Byron, and severely and justly reproached the English nation for having judged their illustrious countryman so pettily, and understood him so ill. '. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
That and the fact that long after any pettily deriding comments have been swallowed up into the obscurity of the aether, the larger work will remain. From Wordnik.com. ["This is my dream. I make the path."] Reference
But his approach is to take the narrowest, pettily partisan approach simply in order to serve ministers' own interests and shut the legitimate debate down. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
And how pettily they express their petty feelings!. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of Anton Chekhov] Reference
It amused her to see a man so masterful thus pettily enslaved. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise] Reference
She pettily attacks the woman instead of trying to understand and learn from it. From Wordnik.com. [Jill Stanek's Pro-Life & Abortion News and Information] Reference
We know that the Mayor's campaign this time has been puzzlingly, pettily negative. From Wordnik.com. [The New Yorker] Reference
"She pettily attacks the woman instead of trying to understand and learn from it.". From Wordnik.com. [Jill Stanek's Pro-Life & Abortion News and Information] Reference
They pounce on the idea, and distort it, and then work it out so pettily and unworthily. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XXXII. Part I] Reference
Boring he may be, flat-footed as ever, pettily partisan - but he is still there without having changed a jot. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
I acted pettily, but then I was only a boy; and now I am a man, getting on in years, I don't know that I am much better. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser] Reference
Too marvellous, say scholars, who overlook her great protest against taxes, and rather pettily insist she must at least have worn a shift. From Wordnik.com. [Brits at their Best] Reference
Monsieur, as an editor, will have observed that a woman who reveals astounding force in an emergency may triumph pettily when the emergency is over?. From Wordnik.com. [A Chair on the Boulevard] Reference
One may pettily pick a flaw here and there in the tale's construction if so minded, but the moral character of Huck himself is not open to criticism. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 1: 1886-1900] Reference
Neither woman ought perish, nor be defamed, or hounded, nor accused pettily and unjustly, nor punished, nor humiliated by those who want to lord over. From Wordnik.com. [The Moderate Voice] Reference
The song sparrows sang and sang, as if with joyous knowledge of immortality, and contempt for those who could so pettily concern themselves with death. From Wordnik.com. [At the Schoolhouse Window] Reference
Felix neither observed on the vast difference between the excellent confidential Spooner and pettily jealous Redstone, nor on the extremely dissimilar mode of emancipation. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the House, V1] Reference
'If the lark's song means nothing -- if that sky is a morass of our invention -- if we are pettily creeping on, furthering nothing -- persuade me of it, Babs, and I'll bless you.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Patrician] Reference
“I’m sure she could do the job better than me already,” I said pettily. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Lady Agency and the Prince] Reference
King, "dismisses Him as a malignant and partisan Deity, jealous and pettily stringent. From Wordnik.com. [Chosen Peoples Being the First "Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture" delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on Easter-Passover Sunday, 1918/5678] Reference
“They pounce on the idea, and distort it, and then work it out so pettily and unworthily. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
Was made for an astounding 3.3 million; a sum pettily small when compared to many other films which are also not nearly as good. From Wordnik.com. [Pretty/Scary] Reference
But why be as pettily partisan as he is?. From Wordnik.com. [Lieberman Calls Dems The "Democrat Party"] Reference
"They pounce on the idea, and distort it, and then work it out so pettily and unworthily. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
James pettily chose to remind us during the season, "If I really wanted to be the scoring. From Wordnik.com. [Sports Central | Articles and Columns] Reference
And when my life is fretted pettily. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866] Reference
Night was "pettily" angry. From Wordnik.com. [Unbreakable II? - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games] Reference
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